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Self Control Quotes
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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation. (Quote by - Mary Parker Follett)
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Superior people never make long visits. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt )
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
For fast-acting relief try slowing down. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The highest result of education is tolerance. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Love understands love; it needs no talk. (Quote by - Frances Ridley Havergal)
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. (Quote by - Mary F. Robinson)
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)